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ALittleLight ◴[] No.32641619[source]
I can see how this might backfire. You notice a censored jump and start to feel the itch of curiosity as to what it concealed. I had to watch several of the censored scenes whereas I would have never just randomly watched clips of the show.

Also, love the presentation on this page.

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mftb ◴[] No.32643000[source]
It absolutely backfires. No one is as successful at selling US culture as the US, except all those countries that censor exported/imported US culture.
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concordDance ◴[] No.32643270[source]
This seems untrue. Do more than a fraction of a percent of Chinese people watch the uncensored versions of things?
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1. mftb ◴[] No.32643971[source]
I have no idea, but I also doubt that's the most effective metric for determining people buying/being sold, US culture. I think you'd have to sample a wide range of metrics to gauge how well US culture has been sold around the world. You'd also have to come up with a good definition of culture. I'm using a very generous one here, including pop-culture, tech-culture and lots of what many people might consider trash. But yea, notwithstanding all of that, I still support the notion that US culture has been sold effectively throughout the world by the US and those who have tried to censor it.